...more

...more

...more

The Allied amphibious operation codenamed Shingle was launched in late January 1944. It was opposed by German forces in ......more

Professor Larissa Bonfante’s great gift is the ability to evoke in a fresh, immediate, and convincing way the experience......more

"Telling engaging stories illuminating the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers inv......more

Visit and explore Sardinia, the beautiful island in the Mediterranean, and stop by the Bronze Age Giants’ grave tombs, s......more

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe will lead you straight to the best attractions this diverse continent has to offer, f......more

Italian history is not widely read but the period under Mussolini’s shadow is both interesting and relevant to understan......more

...more

How the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture--and justifi......more

Enjoy a detailed examination of Operation Olive as US, British, Commonwealth and Allied forces seek to smash through the......more

The shift from a hunting and gathering economy to a productive economy, based on the domestication of plants and animals......more

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soar......more

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soar......more

For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinem......more

For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinem......more

English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright ’invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industr......more

A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europe’s oldest university, often seen as a bastion of trad......more

What is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple of global cuisine? A......more

Stretching into the Mediterranean Sea, Italy is known for its cuisine, cities, and cultures. Learn about Italy’s history......more

Modern Italian historiography has undergone a substantial revision in the last quarter of a century. From an almost excl......more

Modern Italian historiography has undergone a substantial revision in the last quarter of a century. From an almost excl......more

This book shows how Dante Alighieri has been represented in the Italian collective imagination from the late eighteenth ......more

In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), one of just two independent states in Africa at the time. Italy......more

This interdisciplinary work philosophically analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocr......more

Adriatic spans over two thousand years of history and the whole of the eastern Mediterranean region around the Adriatic ......more

Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to dem......more

Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to dem......more

Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women director......more

On the centenary of the fascist party’s ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibition......more

On the centenary of the fascist party’s ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibition......more

In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. Rhodes became......more

Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world’s most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemin......more

...more

The complex appropriation of Piranesi by modern literature, photography, art, film, and architecture. The etchings of th......more

The Italian Risorgimento was the political process that led to the unification of the Italian peninsula into a single ki......more

This book presents the history of Chinese migrations to Europe within a "transcalar glocal" perspective. That is, it mov......more

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history an......more

An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental c......more

An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental c......more

...more

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet returns with the incredible story of Mussolini......more

Will resonate with readers of the The Forgotten 500 and Code Talker. The exploits, trials, disappointments, and victorie......more

When the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 effectively banned the building of battleships, competition between the major n......more

An idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, accompanied by the author’s own witty illustra......more

Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteen......more

...more

The ’long 1960s’, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the mid-1970s, was an epoch defined by social and polit......more

This second volume follows on from the first in recounting the WWII history of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in vivid ......more

The Battles for Monte Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strate......more

The text represents a long journey in the debate that characterized the multifaceted political phenomenon of neofascism.......more

How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natu......more

In 1966, the most destructive flood in the history of Venice temporarily submerged the city and threatened its extraordi......more

This book deals with the reception of Italian elitism in the United States, identifying its key protagonists, phases, an......more

This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race among the nationalist intelligentsia of the......more

This book analyses why the Italian army failed to defeat its Greek opponent between October 1940 and April 1941. It thor......more

This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Po......more

During the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance. Benito Mussolini used architectur......more

Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian to......more

Gazing at each other across the Danube, Buda and Pest, the city’s two halves, have their own distinct characters. While ......more

This illustrated history explores the cruiser forces of the Italian and British Royal navies, the jack-of-all trades war......more

The chilling story of one woman’s rise to prominence in the Italian Mafia, and the as-yet untold stories of the women wh......more

The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of ......more

Niccolò Ridolfi (1501-50), was a Florentine cardinal, nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and h......more

...more

Foreword 1. Introduction2. The Development of an Orthodox Christian Panorama in Italy3. A (Eastern) Latin Church in a (W......more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more

...more

...more

...more

...more

In 1915 the young Italian state became embroiled in the great European conflagration of 1914 - 1918. The infant nation’s......more

The Future of the World Is Open examines the work and thought of three prominent Italian feminist philosophers, Lea Mela......more